Having already drawn with APOEL, Rovers, who still have games against TNS, Rapid Vienna, Borac Banja Luka and Chelsea, have given themselves a real chance of progressing to the next round.
Indeed, Bradley challenged his players to think not just about a place in the knock-outs, but about an automatic place in the last-16 that would be earned by finishing in the top eight of this new format.
“Why not? Why can’t this be our objective?” He said.
“Let’s go and try and do it. I don’t see why we should put any limits on what we can do here.
“European football is tough. If you go wrong at night, you get beaten. They punish mistakes, but we’ve put ourselves in a really strong position, so why limit expectations of what we can do?
“We’ve never been a group to back down from expectations and our standards, and we’re not going to start now. We’ve put ourselves in a position to automatically qualify, so let’s try and do that.”
Lynch acknowledged that such ambitions are another step in Larne’s journey.
“We can suck our thumbs and feel sorry for ourselves or we can consider doing it right.
“If we are serious about Larne being a team that is going to do this again, maybe even get to the stage where you can potentially compete, then there are some things that need to change. It It won’t happen overnight. It’s a process.
“It took us eight years to get to this point. We have to keep learning, keep improving.”